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A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life by: Morris, Wright
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A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life
by: Morris, Wright

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on front fly leaf. In this memoir, Morris chronicles the development of his craft, allowing the reader to look inside the man as the creative process takes place. Never forgetting his Midwestern roots, Morris traveled extensively in this country and around the world photographing as he went. This volume is illustrated with many of those photographs and serves as a travelogue that takes us to places like the plains of Nebraska, sultry Mexico, and romantic Venice; Covers slightly bowed. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 397904

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Stephen Spender: A Literary Life by: Sutherland, John
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Stephen Spender: A Literary Life
by: Sutherland, John

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 627 pages, b&w illustrations. The literary, political, and artistic interests of poet and cultural icon Stephen Spender (1909-1995) are illuminated in this narrative based on his private papers, tracing his rise to success as a poet in the 1930s through his later years as cultural statesman of the twentieth century, and examining his relationships with such luminaries as Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot, and Virgina Woolf. Clean copy.

Record # 397915

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Tolstoy's Letters (2 Volumes) by: Tolstoy, Lev (Edited by R.F. Christian)
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Tolstoy's Letters (2 Volumes)
by: Tolstoy, Lev (Edited by R.F. Christian)

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcovers in dust jackets. 737 pages. Index. The dust jackets are faded on the spine. Edited by R.F. Christian. Vol. 1 1828-1879. Vol. 2 1880-1910. In a cardboard slipcase. Clean, bright set.

Record # 397936

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Tolstoy's Diaries (Two Volumes) by: Tolstoy, Leo, Translator: Christian, R. F.

Tolstoy's Diaries (Two Volumes)
by: Tolstoy, Leo, Translator: Christian, R. F.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes with dust jackets in a cardboard slip case. Volume 1: 1847-1894, 396 pages. Vol. 2: 1895-1910, 397-755 pages. All bright and clean except for fading to dj spines. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397938

Price: $200.00
Price: $200.00 

Nikolai Gogol: Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends by: Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich
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Nikolai Gogol: Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends
by: Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. The first English translation of the last work of Gogol to be published during his lifetime. The only important nonfiction prose work of the Russian novelist, the*e thirty-two critical essays, written in the form of personal letters, define Gogol's views on religion, morality, and aesthetics and provide a key to the underlying motives and messages of his earlier fiction, including Dead Souls and The Inspector General. Translated from the Russian by Jesse Zeldin.

Record # 397941

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Divided Soul: The Life of Gogol by: Troyat, Henri
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Divided Soul: The Life of Gogol
by: Troyat, Henri

Softcover. NY, MInerva Press, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 489 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 397944

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Unpublished Dostoevsky: Diaries and Notebooks, Volume III (1860-81) by: Dostoevsky, Fyodor/Proffer, Carl R. (Editor)
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The Unpublished Dostoevsky: Diaries and Notebooks, Volume III (1860-81)
by: Dostoevsky, Fyodor/Proffer, Carl R. (Editor)

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, Ardis, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. VOLUME 3 ONLY. 204 pages. Fading to dj spine, clean copy.

Record # 397945

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

The Journey Not The Arrival Matters: An Autobiography Of The Years 1939-1969 by: Leonard Woolf
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The Journey Not The Arrival Matters: An Autobiography Of The Years 1939-1969
by: Leonard Woolf

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace & World, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 217 pages, b&w photos. Stated first American edition of Woolf's memoirs. includes vignettes of Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press. Book reviews laid in. Edges, spine of dust jacket tanning. Otherwise clean.

Record # 397946

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 by: Joseph Frank
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Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
by: Joseph Frank

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 401 pages. The first volume in Frank's monumental five part biography of the great Russian writer. No date on copyright page. Clean copy.

Record # 397953

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 by: Joseph Frank
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Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
by: Joseph Frank

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 320 pages. The second volume in Frank's monumental five part biography of the great Russian writer. No date on copyright page. Clean copy.

Record # 397955

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 by: Joseph Frank
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Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
by: Joseph Frank

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 395 pages. The third volume in Frank's monumental five part biography of the great Russian writer. This volume begins with the writer's return to Saint Petersburg after a ten-year Siberian exile and traces how his engagement in the cultural and social ferment of Russia in the early 1860s led to his discovery of the themes that would underlie his mature masterpieces. Clean copy.

Record # 397957

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871 by: Joseph Frank
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Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
by: Joseph Frank

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 521 pages. The fourth volume in Frank's monumental five part biography of the great Russian writer. Covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels--Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Devils--and two of his best novellas, The Gambler and The Eternal Husband. All these masterpieces were written in the midst of harrowing practical and economic circumstances, as Dostoevsky moved from place to place, frequently giving way to his passion for roulette. Having remarried and fled from Russia to escape importuning creditors and grasping dependents, he could not return for fear of being thrown into debtor's prison. He and his young bride, who twice made him a father, lived obscurely and penuriously in Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, as he toiled away at his writing, their only source of income. Clean copy.

Record # 397958

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Reluctant Activist: The Spiritual Life and Art of John Howard Griffin (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Bonazzi, Robert
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Reluctant Activist: The Spiritual Life and Art of John Howard Griffin (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Bonazzi, Robert

Softcover. Ft., Texas Christian University, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 435 pages. INSCRIBED BY BONAZZI on the title page. This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, is based on John Howard Griffin's Journals from 1950-1980. Griffin was blinded in the South Seas during WWII, but regained sight in 1957, after which he wrote the classic Black Like Me. Bonazzi follows Griffin year by year after 1961, when Griffin toured the globe as a lecturer on human rights.

Record # 397992

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Black Like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition by: Griffin, John Howard
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Black Like Me: 50th Anniversary Edition
by: Griffin, John Howard

Hardcover. San Antonio TX, Wings Press, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages, b&w photos. On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition which is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and added afterword gives fresh life to what is still considered a contemporary book. The story that earned respect from civil rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as one of the great human and humanitarian documents of the era. Clean copy.

Record # 397994

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by: D. H. Lawrence/ Edward D. McDonald (Ed.)

Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence
by: D. H. Lawrence/ Edward D. McDonald (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in black cloth with design of a phoenix on the front cover. No dust jacket. First edition with Published in October 1936 on copyright page and no additional printings noted. Fading to the spine. 852 pages. A complete collection of D H Lawrence's unpublished essays. Discoloration to black cloth along bottom of front cover and spine, Interior is bright and clean.

Record # 397996

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Follow the Ecstasy: Thomas Merton, the Hermitage Years, 1965-1968 by: Griffin, John Howard/ Bonazzi, Robert (Ed.)
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Follow the Ecstasy: Thomas Merton, the Hermitage Years, 1965-1968
by: Griffin, John Howard/ Bonazzi, Robert (Ed.)

Softcover. JHG Editions/Latitudes Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages plus index. SIGNED BY EDITOR BONAZZI on contents page. Clean copy.

Record # 397999

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Frank Norris Revisited (INSCRIBED COPY) by: McElrath, Joseph R.
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Frank Norris Revisited (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: McElrath, Joseph R.

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 145 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. The renown Frank Norris attained in his brief lifetime sprang from his compelling--and to many Americans startling--novels about people whose lives have escaped their control and have become grotesquely warped by the confluent forces of hereditary and environment.In "revisiting" Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. takes as a starting point Warren French's 1962 volume in this series and provides a complementary portrait of the artist. McElrath assesses the spate of relatively recent "historical reconstructions" of Norris's canon and finds a writer who, though at times transcendent in the Naturalistic vein, was pragmatic in his choice of subject matter and "not always grandly serious." It is in part the delight Norris took in parody, McElrath argues, that makes him still so readable. Clean copy.

Record # 398018

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

These Sad but Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850 by: Fuller, Margaret
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These Sad but Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850
by: Fuller, Margaret

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to some areas, 338 pages. Margaret Fuller - journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist - traveled in Europe between 1846 and 1850 as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. Her letters from England, France, and Italy, which began as engaging travel sketches, soon became moving accounts of the most widespread revolutionary upheaval within modern history. These dispatches are now reproduced in their entirety for the first time. Clean copy.

Record # 398022

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Under the Rose: A Confession (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Flavia Alaya
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Under the Rose: A Confession (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Flavia Alaya

Softcover. NY, The Feminist Press, 1ST, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. The memoir of a young Catholic women's affair with a pastor in Italy. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. A few pages with light pencil underlining., otherwise clean.

Record # 398025

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Awkward: A Detour by: Mary Cappello
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Awkward: A Detour
by: Mary Cappello

Softcover. NY, Bellevue Literary Press, 1st, 2007, Softcover, 236 pages. Without awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she mines her own life journeys from Russia to Italy to the far corners of her heart and the depths of a literary or cinematic text to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit. Clean copy.

Record # 398026

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John

Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes]
by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Two hardcover volumes in worn, soiled dust jackets. Dark green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper covers and spines. As a result of djs, both volumes are bright and clean, 261. 243 pages. No markings.

Record # 398038

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Notes on Aaron's Rod And Other Notes On Lawrence From The Paris Notebooks by: Miller, Henry
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Notes on Aaron's Rod And Other Notes On Lawrence From The Paris Notebooks
by: Miller, Henry

Hardcover. Santa Barbara CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 59 pages. Edition of 750 copies. This is one of the unsigned copies. Quarter black cloth with paper title label. Printed boards. Acetate dust jacket with light soil.

Record # 398039

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Turgenev: His Life and Times by: Leonard Schapiro
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Turgenev: His Life and Times
by: Leonard Schapiro

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st US, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 382 pages. A biography of Ivan Turgenev, 19th-century Russian writer. The book is not a critical examination of Turgenev's literary output, but, of the man himself - enigmatic and unknown - and the world in which he lived, and the people he knew and associated with. Clean copy.

Record # 398042

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Among My Books: Second Series by: Lowell, James Russell
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Among My Books: Second Series
by: Lowell, James Russell

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth on boards with bright gilt titling and gilt publisher's device to spine. Beveled edges and blind stamped border ruling, the book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out. A collection of prose pieces on Dante, Spenser, Wordsworth, Milton and Keats. Clean copy.

Record # 398051

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

A Packet for Ezra Pound by: Yeats, William Butler
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A Packet for Ezra Pound by: Yeats, William ButlerA Packet for Ezra Pound by: Yeats, William Butler

A Packet for Ezra Pound
by: Yeats, William Butler

Hardcover. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, one of 425 copies, publisher's device vignette by T. Sturge Moore on title page, minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally, publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label on spine is chipped, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine and extremities slightly toned, else very good. One of 425 copies, printed at the Cuala Press, with the date misprinted as 'MCMXXVIV' on the title page (as noted by Wade). The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908. No dust wrapper, as issued. There is some tanning/foxing to last 8 pages including colophon.

Record # 398057

Price: $300.00
Price: $300.00 

Charles Reznikoff: A Critical Essay by: Hindus, Milton
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Charles Reznikoff: A Critical Essay
by: Hindus, Milton

Hardcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages. Printed paper over boards backed in brown cloth with matching paper spine label. Acetate dust jacket. Remainder mark to top edge.

Record # 398058

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

William Carlos Williams Review a Volume IX Numbers 1 2 Fall 1983: Centennial Issue by: GRAHAM Theodora Rapp and Peter Schmidt edited by
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William Carlos Williams Review a Volume IX Numbers 1 2 Fall 1983: Centennial Issue
by: GRAHAM Theodora Rapp and Peter Schmidt edited by

Softcover. Middletown PA, Pennsylvania State University, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Red perfect bound wrappers, 176 pages. Covers with a few faint creases, spine slightly faded, mild wave to book. Prints Williams' 80-page 1914 little red notebook in exact-size facsimiles with a transcription and two additional essays from his son William Eric Williams; additional contributions by Reed Whittemore, James Laughlin, Cecelia Tichi, Peter Schmidt, Mary Ellen Solt, Henry Sayre, Emily Wallace, Louis Martz and Albert Sonnenfeld. The journal showcases scholarly essays on any aspect of the life and work of William Carlos Williams.

Record # 398059

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Answerable to None: Berrigan, Bronk, and the American Real:Essays and Reviews by: Edward Foster
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Answerable to None: Berrigan, Bronk, and the American Real:Essays and Reviews
by: Edward Foster

Softcover. NY, Spuyten Duyvil, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages, Essays on contemporary American literature. Small bump to edge causing a slight wave to top edge, Clean copy.

Record # 398068

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period (INSCRIBED BY EDITOR) by: Artaud Antonin; Ed. & Trans. By Clayton Eshleman & Bernard Bador
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Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period (INSCRIBED BY EDITOR)
by: Artaud Antonin; Ed. & Trans. By Clayton Eshleman & Bernard Bador

Softcover. Boston, Exact Change, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 342 pages. INSCRIBED BY ESHLEMAN in red ink on the half-title page. Clean, like new.

Record # 398070

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry Politics Consciousness by: Allen Ginsberg; Gordon Ball (edited by)
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Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry Politics Consciousness
by: Allen Ginsberg; Gordon Ball (edited by)

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 269 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 398071

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

My Queer War by: Lord, James
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My Queer War
by: Lord, James

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the US Army. This title tells the story of this young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. Along the way he comes to terms with his own sexuality, experiences the thrill of first love and the chill of disillusionment with his fellow man, Clean copy.

Record # 398077

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser by: Loving, Jerome
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The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser
by: Loving, Jerome

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages, b&w illustrations. When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immortality--for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. INSCRIBED BY LOVING ("Jerry") on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Record # 398079

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 by: Leonard Woolf
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Downhill All the Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939
by: Leonard Woolf

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 259 pages, photographic frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates; original blue cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine, Autobiography of the English writer and founder of the Hogarth Press with his wife Virginia Woolf. The fourth volume of the autobiography. Remainder line to edge, otherwise clean.

Record # 398081

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Exhumations: Stories Articles Verses by: Christopher Isherwood
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Exhumations: Stories Articles Verses
by: Christopher Isherwood

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket with mild tanning, 254 pages. Bound in bright blue cloth in white dust jacket printed in red and black. First Printing stated. A collection of Isherwood's writings from nearly four decades. Clean copy.

Record # 398083

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Selected Letters The Personal Correspondence, 1844-1877 by: Raddatz, Fritz J. (editor)
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Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Selected Letters The Personal Correspondence, 1844-1877
by: Raddatz, Fritz J. (editor)

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company , 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Translated by Ewald Osers. Clean copy.

Record # 398091

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams by: Williams, Williams Carlos [John Thirlwall, Ed]
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The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams
by: Williams, Williams Carlos [John Thirlwall, Ed]

Hardcover. NY, Mcdowell, Obolensky, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine, 347 pages. Edited with an introduction by John C. Thirlwall. Clean copy.

Record # 398095

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Bibliography of the Italian American Book by: Fred Gardaphe & James Periconi (Ed.)
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Bibliography of the Italian American Book
by: Fred Gardaphe & James Periconi (Ed.)

Softcover. Mt. Vernon NY, Italian American Writers Association, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 118 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERICONI on the title page. Limited to 1000 copies. A bibliography of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by and about Italian Americans. Mild tanning to wraps, otherwise clean.

Record # 398108

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Memoir from a Swiss Prison by: Ignazio Silone
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Memoir from a Swiss Prison
by: Ignazio Silone

Softcover. Merrick NY, Cross-Cultural Communications, 1st pbk, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages. Edited and translated from the Italian by Stanislao G. Pugliese. Ignazio Silone, anti-fascist and founding member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) offers a politically conscious and soul searching memoir which details his own PSI activities and the various factors engendering the "necessity for action on behalf of liberty and democracy among the working classes." Over the course of his political career, Silone wrote a number of fiction and non-fiction works, and was imprisoned in Italy, France, Spain, and finally in Switzerland where he composed this memoir in 1942. Often compared with Andre Malraux and Albert Camus, Silone was awarded an honorary degree by Yale University, was a recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, and was twice considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature. INSCRIBED BY PUGLIESE on the title page. Clean copy.

Record # 398109

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Women of the Shadows: Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy by: Ann Cornelisen
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Women of the Shadows: Wives and Mothers of Southern Italy
by: Ann Cornelisen

Softcover. South Royalton VT, Steerforth Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages plus b&w photos. With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heartrending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for factories in the industrial north. The women remained behind to work the fields. There's Peppina, Ninetta, Teresa, Maria, Pinuccia, and Cettina, all women who "have done things of which they are not proud; they know it in their hearts, as one woman said, that nothing is private, they would also agree with her conclusion: That doesn't mean you get used to it." With an extraordinary understanding of the interior lives of these and other women, Cornelisen brings them out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories in a book which truly merits the label "classic." A new introduction by the author suggests that the more things change, the more, in essence, they remain the same. Wrappers sunned, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 398111

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

It's Hard to Talk about Yourself by: Ginzburg, Natalia, Translator: Quirke, Louise
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It's Hard to Talk about Yourself
by: Ginzburg, Natalia, Translator: Quirke, Louise

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 202 pages. Natalia Ginzburg, arguably the most important woman writer of postwar Italy, always spoke of herself with irrepressible modesty. Yet the woman who claimed she "never managed to climb up mountains" in fact wrote the history of twentieth-century Italy with her sparse and captivating prose, chronicling Fascism, war, and the Nazi occupation as well as the intimacies of family life. Intensely reserved, Ginzburg said that she "crept toward autobiography stealthily like a wolf." But she did openly discuss her life and her work in an extraordinary series of interviews for Italian radio in 1990. Never before published in English, It's Hard to Talk about Yourself presents a vivid portrait of Ginzburg in her own words on the forces that shaped her remarkable life-politics, publishing, literature, and family. This fluid translation will join Ginzburg's autobiography, Family Sayings, as one of the most important records of her life and, as the editors write in their preface, "the last, unexpected, original book by Natalia Ginzburg."

Record # 398115

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Life of Ezra Pound by: Noel Stock
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The Life of Ezra Pound
by: Noel Stock

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. This is the first detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. It includes much material - poetry, prose, and letters - which has not previously been published. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of "the modern movement," a friend and helper of Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, and Hemingway, and an early supporter of Lawrence and Frost. Clean copy.

Record # 398149

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Payne, Daniel G.
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Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Payne, Daniel G.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages. INSCRIBED BY PAYNE on the half-title page and also SIGNED on the title page. In Orion on the Dunes, the first biography of Beston, scholar Daniel Payne-granted unrestricted access to the writer's archives and drawing on interviews with friends and family-has crafted a scrupulously researched narrative; one presenting a masterful portrait that traces the intellectual growth and tumultuous life of a vital American writer whose work and thought have exerted a tremendous pull on poets, naturalists, and novelists alike. This is the story of a life, at once hidden and transparent, that is here finally revealed. Clean copy.

Record # 398152

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Art of Satire by: David Worcester
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The Art of Satire
by: David Worcester

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, red cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket with closed tears, 191 pages with index. Dr. Worcester presents a theory of satire, surveying the whole field since Dryden's Discourse of the Origin of Satire and drawing illustrations not only from English but from classical, French, German, and American literature. At the same time he makes a penetrating study of irony and its uses. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Record # 398176

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Living in Bloomsbury by: Burke, Thomas
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Living in Bloomsbury
by: Burke, Thomas

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 2nd pr., 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth with red lettering to the spine, 361 pages. Although the life of London runs like a thread through the whole fabric of this book, it is not essentially a book about London. Life in Bloomsbury is but the center of a large circle, the point around which the rest of the book revolves, the origin of a disarming commentary on an infinite variety of topics - on Bloomsbury's squares, on the picturesqueness of London a generation ago, on what is true Cockney, on the differences of English and American humor, on the decay of English wit, on books and authors and publishers and the Press, on the literary lions of the past, on the religion of speed, on the charm of Americans, on how the Victorian age was neither so repressed nor so hidebound as most people today like to believe - and so on, one thing leading to another, like good conversation at a good luncheon overlooking the mellow squares of Bloomsbury. The book is full, too, of good stories and reminiscences, both humorous and pathetic, but there is shrewd comment besides on the deficiencies of contemporary society, not the less effective because the author knows how to soften the blow. Mild soil, sunning to covers, clean copy.

Record # 398182

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Talk Stories by: Lillian Ross
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Talk Stories
by: Lillian Ross

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 301 pages. Stated First printing on copyright page, $5.95 price on front flap. A collection of articles written for The New Yorker 1958-1965. Some tanning to dj. small price stamp on front flap, otherwise clean.

Record # 398184

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews by: Cowley, Malcolm (Ed.)
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Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews
by: Cowley, Malcolm (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 398194

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Gods of Tin: The Flying Years by: James Salter/Jessica Benton (Editor)/William Benton (Editor)
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Gods of Tin: The Flying Years
by: James Salter/Jessica Benton (Editor)/William Benton (Editor)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Shoemaker & Hoard, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray boards with blue cloth spine, 150 pages, b&w illustrations. A singular life often circles around a singular moment, an occasion when one's life in the world is defined forever and the emotional vocabulary set. For the extraordinary writer James Salter, this moment was contained in the fighter planes over Korea where, during his young manhood, he flew more than one hundred missions. James Salter is considered one of America's greatest prose stylists. The Arm of Flesh (later revised and retitled Cassada ) and his first novel, The Hunters, are legendary in military circles for their descriptions of flying and aerial combat. A former Air Force pilot who flew F-86 fighters in Korea, Salter writes with matchless insight about the terror and exhilaration of the pilot's life. This book collects passages from two other books he wrote about his military flight career and entries from his personal journal kept during his tours of military flying duty through flight training in late WWII, into combat duty in Korea in 1952, and through his post war flying up into the early 1960s. Masterfully edited by Jessica and William Benton, it has been organized chronologically and simply is wonderful. You can read from the journal entry, and then it is followed by fiction he created using that experience. No dust jacket, clean, bright copy.

Record # 398206

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

The Survival of the Bark Canoe by: John McPhee
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
by: John McPhee

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light tanning to edges. 214 pages with a pictorial section in rear. Stated first printing on copyright page. The story of the building of birch-bark canoes and of a 150 mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology.

Record # 398245

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud by: Van de Water, Frederic F.; Custer, Bernadine (drawings)
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Rudyard Kipling's Vermont Feud
by: Van de Water, Frederic F.; Custer, Bernadine (drawings)

Hardcover. NY, John Day/Reynal & Hitchcock, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth, 119 pages. B&w line illustrations by Bernadine Custer. Rudyard Kipling lived with his wife on a small estate in Dummerston, Vermont, in a house they built called Naulakha, from 1892 to 1896. It was while he was here that he wrote both "The Jungle Book" and "Captains Courageous". Kipling would have been content to live out his life there but in 1896, a dispute arose between the Kiplings an a neighbor led to a court case and the Kiplings left Vermont never to return. This volume, written by a Dummerston native and historian, tells the story of that dispute. Lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 398347

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Dorothy Parker. A Bio-Bibliography by: Calhoun, Randall
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Dorothy Parker. A Bio-Bibliography
by: Calhoun, Randall

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy boards, 174 pages. B&w frontispiece portrait. Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) had something to say about virtually all her contemporaries among the literati, and they returned the favor in full measure. This well articulated primary and secondary bibliography covers the complete canon and its critical reaction, with illuminating annotations complemented by a biographical sketch. Included also are three personal views of Parker-- by Joseph Bryan, III, Richard Lauterbach, and Wyatt Cooper. The accumulated evidence suggests that Parker should be considered a major figure in American letters not just America's wittiest woman who happened to write. Clean copy.

Record # 398461

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 


  

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